I Wish I May

Hello everybody! I'm Celestial Night, and, basically, I'm trying to write a halfway decent SxS fic!

"Really And Truly" needs...work, to put it lightly. It hasn't been deleted, but it has been discontinued. I'll hopefully get back to it soon, if not, to all of you "Really And Truly" fans: Sorry!

Thanks to all those who reviewed for "Really And Truly"'s AN!

pisces071: Thanks for your encouragement! I'm not sure what exactly I'm gonna revise yet, but I have to do something with the plot....LOL I decided that I'm not gonna delete the fic, but it's discontinued for now.

Cherry Arrow: :Runs away and hides: Thanks for the Seto/Kisara link, but you seemed so mad at me in that last review. I truly need to change "Really And Truly"-It needs help! :) Hopefully, you'll like this fic better! I'm not gonna delete my other fic, but it is discontinued for now. You're the one who asked me to update this fic in your review....So, I decided to listen. You deserve a thank you!

v son sayian: Thanks for your optimism! You live in Illinois? Like near the Chicago or something? LOL .

kikoken: I decided not to delete my other fic, but it needs work so it has been discontinued for now. Good luck with your, what is it...50 Seto/Serenity fics! I am positive that they'll succeed much better than my other ficcy...

Kaiba-Angel: I'm sorry if I caused some calamity for you...I'm not gonna delete the fic, but it's been discontinued for now. n.n

MistressMoonDemon: Your new fic's back up, right? Well, best of luck with that fic, and I know that you'll do well! And as for the other fic, it hasn't been deleted, but it has been discontinued temporarily! .

Anyway, I've had this idea for awhile, and I think it's pretty good, but you guys are the one who will give me the true answer to that.

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They were standing in the pasture in front of Anzu's mansion. All three of the fairies-in-training, Anzu, her cousin from her father's side, Shizuka, and her cousin from her mother's side, Mai.

Mai impatiently put her nose up in the air; she folded her arms swiftly, and she started clicking her purple wand against her elbow. Anzu scowled as she looked upon her cousin.

"Mai, believe me when I say that I can create houses. It just takes a bit of preparation for I'm no master, yet," Anzu explained as she gripped the red wand in her hand harder. In response to her cousin, Mai simply opened one eye, expectantly glanced at Anzu, and then quickly shut her eye again.

"Come on, Anzu! You can show her the pretty houses that you can create!" Shizuka cheered her cousin on. (Shizuka had much respect for her cousin Anzu, for Anzu had been a big sister for her, literally. You see, Shizuka had been told that she was an orphan--ever since the age of two, and that her Auntie Kijin and her daughter Anzu were the only living relatives she had....Even though Shizuka was only related to Kijin because of her late uncle who was Anzu's father...........But, can you keep a secret? [What Anzu never let Shizuka know was that Shizuka's parents were two of the most powerful fairies that roamed the grounds of the Fairy World. But don't worry: They were kind faeries!])

So, let's Recap quickly: Orphaned since infancy, Shizuka has been living with her cousin, Anzu, and her Aunty Kijin. Anzu's father was the only living relative that Shizuka had, but tragically, he passed away. So Kijin and Anzu are as close to relatives as Shizuka has.

Anzu, who was ten-years-old, told her cousin Mai, who was of the same age, that she could create large villas with a fast whoosh of her wand. Mai did not believe her, maybe that's why she had her eyes lowered in annoyance, growing impatient with every moment that Anzu wasted on stalling.

"Well?" Mai asked as she stomped on some grass that was beneath her feet, her voice getting louder. "I thought you said that you could create houses with a single swish of your wand, but all I see are green pastures." Mai looked at her lilac wand that had atop it a lovely pair of pewter angel wings that were carved as if ready to take flight. She was a bit older than Anzu, and for her to believe that Anzu could, before her, create large villas with a single movement of her wand was going to take a lot of convincing.

"Shhhh!" Shizuka beckoned Mai as she put a finger up to her sealed lips. "Anzu needs to concentrate!" Mai angrily rolled her eyes.

Anzu shut her eyes tightly. All she needed was a moment of silence so that she could be ready to concentrate her mind to perform such a magical task.

"Okay," Anzu said as she opened her eyes and surveyed the pastures in front of her. "I'm ready." And with that said, Mai watched her with an amused look, and Serenity's eyes brightened to see Anzu present such a feat. Anzu took her tomato red wand, that had a glass, eight-pointed star resting upon it, and she promptly drew a straight, vertical line in midair while chanting:

"Tall like a mountain and stunning like a mare, I want a grand villa to appear right there!"

Mai's mouth hung slightly open as she saw, before her two radiating eyes, a house build itself less than three meters in front of her. It started off as a large box of wood, then the wood structure added to itself and its complexity. Soon, wires started entangling themselves within the wood, and pipes started to adjoin as well. Mai rapidly rubbed her eyes to make sure that she was seeing correctly.

Anzu seemed quite proud for she carried on her face a fulfilled smirk. Crossing her arms and to survey the making of the villa satisfyingly, she couldn't help but mumble an inaudible, "I told you, Mai."

Shizuka seemed more proud than Anzu to see a work unravel in front of her eyes. She was filled with joy because never had she seen her cousin summon anything so massive before. Her eyes were glistening when she saw the now 28 foot tall mansion paint itself with a light coating of beige and sprinkle itself with a dusting of rocks to give it a hearty feel.

"I saw it," Mai breathed as she blinked frantically, "But I still can't believe it..."

"Anzu, that's the prettiest house you ever built!" Shizuka cried as she stared at the beautiful dwelling, basking in the sunlight to almost add to its already elegant appeal.

"Wow...." Anzu gasped. Even she had not predicted that her villa would come out so beautifully. "Well, Mai," she snapped as she turned her head to her gaping cousin, "I believe you owe me an apology."

"I owe you nothing," Mai explained as the fairy wings on her back started to twitch. "No fairy in their right mind would ever believe that a ten-year-old concocted...that. I don't owe you an apology for thinking logically." Mai's fairy wings started to move fervently as she started to hover a few feet in the air. Her wings, using direction controls from her mind, flew her the three meters to the villa that was standing right in front of her.

When Mai hovered herself over to the villa, she set her feet down firmly on the ground and touched the villa just to make sure that it was real,.

"It's no hologram, Mai. You didn't believe me when I said that I could conjure up a grand villa, and now that you've seen me do it, it's only fair that you give me an apology," Anzu explained as she flew herself over to the side of Mai.

Mai looked at the villa more thoroughly, and she ignored Anzu as she flew herself over to the back of the villa.

"You owe me an apology!" Anzu screamed as she hovered herself behind Mai.

Shizuka watched this scene helplessly. She still couldn't believe that Anzu had done such a wonderful performance of magic! She could only hope that Anzu was going to teach her how to do such amazing things!

"Ooooooooo, you're in for it now...." Shizuka heard Mai say from behind the villa.

Confused, Shizuka decided to investigate what Mai was talking about. So, her wings started to twitch a bit, and she started to slightly hover in the air. In a few seconds' time, Shizuka was off to see what exactly was behind the villa.

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Shizuka landed herself right beside Mai when she finally arrived behind the villa. She saw Mai, now, with a sly smirk on her face, and it was Anzu who was biting her nails nervously, with her wand trembling in her other hand. The thing was, they were both staring downwards at the ground, so Shizuka decided to follow their stares.

Frankly, if Shizuka was in Anzu's position right now, she would've bitten off her nails and tremble with fear as well. You see, on the ground of the villa's property, there lay a head. A large, statue head to be exact. It was apparently broken of from the rest of the statue for it had a crumbling neckline, and all three of the girls were very familiar with the statue.

"Is that.....Aunty Kijin's statue head on the ground?" Shizuka asked as her face became a sort of confused scowl.

"Ya think?" Mai answered. "Oh Anzu, Aunty is going to be very displeased," Mai sang in a you-got-in-trouble voice.

"Mai, be quiet. I can fix this. There's nothing magic can't fix," Anzu mumbled as she shakily pointed her want to the villa. "Observe," She ordered.

"Lovely as it may be, it will always find a place in my heart as dear, but please make this stunning villa disappear!"

Anzu chanted her little spell, and in an instant, the villa vanished with a red wind. The villa faded just as quickly as it had appeared. Anzu was glad that the house was gone, but when she saw what lay under the massive estate, she stopped breathing for a second.

But before Shizuka could actually get a good look at what lay under the villa, Mai started shrieking with excitement, and Anzu seemed to have been consumed by darkness.

"I'm gonna tell Aunty Kijin!" Mai exclaimed as she started flicking her wings. And before Anzu could object, Mai was off like a bullet, racing towards Shizuka and Anzu's house that was sitting atop of a hill in the not too far distance.

"No Mai, don't!" Anzu screamed as she almost instantly started hovering and dashed her way after Mai.

"Tell Aunty what?" Shizuka asked but received no answer. So Shizuka decided to look at what was below the villa, and she gave thanks that she wasn't Anzu. What Anzu had brilliantly done was place the villa on top of a large, nine feet tall, off-white colored granite statue that was a jewel in Aunty Kijin's eyes. It was a statue of a beautiful girl dressed in several layers of sheer robes. But now, it was nothing more than gravel that was smothered by the massive villa. All that obviously reminded kind of intact of the statue was the head that had, somehow, been ripped apart by the villa but not smushed.

As Shizuka wondered how the villa could've taken the head off of the statue but not have clobbered it, she remembered that Mai was at the moment racing Anzu to get her into trouble.

"Ooooooooo, Anzu's in for it now," Shizuka nervously squeaked as she prepared her wings to fly to the mansion.

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Shizuka arrived inside the parlor of the house just in time to hear Kijin tell Anzu what she saw.

"Yes, I saw the villa," she explained as she patted Anzu on her head in a congratulatory manner. Mai looked as though she were bubbling with impatience to speak, but respectfully held her tongue when an adult was still busy talking. "It was a beautiful villa, but I only saw it for a split-second because I was summoning cookies for you girls when I happened to look out the window," She explained as she pointed to the tray of moist cookies resting on the parlor table.

"But Aunty Kijin!" Mai said impatiently as Shizuka appeared right beside her.

"Mai?" Kijin responded.

Anzu's face grew pink with anxiousness as she saw Mai smile. "Uhh...Mother, Mai was only going to say that the villa wasn't all that pretty--that's why I had to take it down," Anzu hastily supplied as she tried to the best of her ability to cut Mai off.

"It was much too big, in a gaudily manner. And because it was so big, it was also too heavy, but your granite statue knows that better than we do," Mai explained as she beamed with pride.

"I hate you," Anzu spat at Mai, "It's that simple. I really do."

"Anzu!" Kijin scolded, "Now Mai, excuse Anzu and what were you saying again?" Kijin asked anxiously as soon as the word "statue" triggered some not so happy thoughts.

But Anzu and Mai were locked in a staring contest where Mai simple smirked, and Anzu just threw at Mai glares of evil that were just flowing with malice. Both girls had their wands locked ready in their hands.

"Mai! Anzu! What's going on?"

"You are the worst cousin I have! You are a traitor, you weasel!" Anzu barked.

"Well, I wouldn't be a traitor if you were smart enough not to place your grand villa on top of Aunty Kijin's favorite statue!"

"Liar! You didn't have to tell!"

"Idiot!"

"Jerk!"

"Nuts for brains!"

"Creep!"

"Dimwit!"

"Evil!"

"You can't even spell evil!"

"Can too!"

"Can not!"

"Can too!"

"Can not!"

"Can too!"

"Can not!"

"Shizuka!" Kijin cried as she looked to the only girl who didn't have a bitter expression upon her face. "What are they yelling about?" She desperately asked as Shizuka looked down to her feet.

"Umm....well...Umm...Anzu accidentally-"

"Anzu accidentally placed her large house on your statue, Aunty Kijin," Mai explained as Anzu gave her the sharpest look that Shizuka had ever seen.

"Mai?" Kijin asked with confusion on her face, "What did Anzu do to my statue?"

"Nothing! Mai's just joking, right Mai?" Anzu asked nervously as Mai solemnly shook her head.

"It's really tragic, Aunty Kijin. But Anzu-better yet, her house-crushed your statue," Mai explained with a serious look on her face.

"Oh dear lord...." Kijin mumbled as a tornado of light purple sprinkles consumed her, and, within a few seconds, she was gone. No doubt she had gone to investigate, what Mai described as if she was talking about a murder, her "crushed" statue.

And as Shizuka nervously glanced out the windows, a light blue covering surrounded the whole house. Think of it as Kijin's way of keeping the children out of anymore destructive danger.

"She put a dome around the house to keep us in," Anzu angrily hissed, "And it's all your fault!" She screeched at Mai.

"MY fault?" Mai asked as the wand in her hand started to let out a few sparks. "I was simply doing the right thing by telling Aunty Kijin that you destroyed her statue."

"You didn't have to tell her. I could've fixed it with a magic charm!"

Mai was spilt-seconds away from shrieking back at Anzu, but it just so happened that a large, smoky, rectangular-shaped screen appeared inside of the parlor.

It was big, and it scared Mai a bit, but Anzu and Shizuka were very well used to this screen, and they were surprised at Mai's behavior toward it.

"What is that?" Mai asked as she backed away from the screen that was now consuming the whole wall.

"You don't know? Doesn't your family have an Inclination VDT?" Anzu asked with a surprised look on her face. "The Inclination VDT shows wishes from across the world. Every adult fairy has one, and this one belongs to my mother. The Inclination VDT displays the wishes that the Parliament of Magic thinks my mom can grant, like-"

"I know what an Inclination VDT is, stupid," Mai explained, "It's just that your Inclination VDT is ugly."

"Ugly?" Shizuka asked, surprised.

"Yeah. See, my family's VDT is like round, and it's in the shape of a heart. It's really pretty, and it's not gray and dull. My family's VDT changes colors every minute. I don't like yours."

"Nobody asked you," Anzu snapped as she started looking at the VDT's screen. "Look, according to this, there's a wish that needs to be granted in Japan." Mai scowled.

"What does the wish say?--I mean, what does the wish ask?" Shizuka asked as she looked at the VDT's world map that had a red, glowing dot over Japan on it.

"Monitor, display the wish," Anzu ordered the VDT, and instantly, the computer zoomed into Japan, and a map of the city of Domino was revealed. The computer continued to zoom farther into the city, until it came to a busy neighborhood, and from that neighborhood it went to a block. From that block, it went to an orphanage, and that's when the screen went black.

"Is it broken?" Mai asked, staring with a confused expression on as she looked at the black screen.

"Just watch," Shizuka said as she pointed a finger to the screen, that was now printing letters onto itself. "Look what it spelled out!" Shizuka cried:

Country: Japan

City: Domino

Location: Orphanage

Wish: An orphaned boy wishes for a human friend.

"Your VDT's rather vague," Mai said. "My family's VDT would've given the planet, the continent, then the country, then the city-state, state, province, etc., then it would've given a county, if possible, and then it would give a town, street, and the exact name of the location of the wish."

"That was a waste of breath," Anzu retorted, "Nobody cares. I didn't listen, and Shizuka's too busy gawking at the screen to pay attention to you."

"It's so sad," Shizuka breathed, "I mean...The poor boy's an orphan and all he wants is a human friend."

"That's an easy wish," Anzu snapped. "I could grant it if I wanted to."

"Oh yeah? Then I dare you to go to Japan and grant that wish."

"No way! You're just trying to get me into deeper trouble. Why don't you go and grant that wish?"

"Because I'm not the one bragging that I can grant the wish."

"I wasn't bragging; I was simply declaring a fact. Can you grant that wish?"

"Of course I can."

"Then go to Japan and grant that wish."

"Suppose I don't wanna."

"Then I don't believe that you can grant the wish."

"SHUT UP!" Shizuka screamed just before Mai opened her mouth. "I hope Aunty gets back soon because I really want her to grant that wish. It's so sad: All that little boy wants is a friend."

"It's not sad; it's corny," Anzu snickered.

"Shizuka," Mai said as she looked to the girl with sadness in her eyes, "Can you grant that wish?"

"No...." Anzu laughed. "All that Shizuka can conjure up is a stupid little puppy. It's the only thing that her useless wand can do. The ONLY thing. And you should see this puppy, it's hideous! It's like this big, [Anzu held her hands apart about eight inches] and it's mostly white with these disgusting brown splotches covering random spots on it. It really is ugly. You'll get a good laugh when you see it."

"My puppy isn't ugly," Shizuka cried, "I think it's cute."

"Well I think it's revolting," Anzu explained. "Really, Shizuka, you should learn other magic tricks by now."

"But Aunty says that I'm developing at a normal fairy rate!"

"Really, Shizuka! I mean an eight-year-old fairy can grant nothing more than a puppy for a wish?" Mai asked with a false appalled tone. "Anzu's actually right when she says that you must improve."

"Mai! I don't think she's getting our clues!" Anzu exclaimed. Anzu had an idea....

"What clues?" Mai asked as her eyes went to Anzu. "I don't understand."

"She's not understanding that the reason Mom left us here all alone was because she knew that there was a wish coming." Anzu walked over to Shizuka and gave her a loving smile.

"Oh..." Mai mumbled. She had started to realize what Anzu was up to, and, frankly, she liked this idea. "Yes, Shizuka! Don't you see? Your Aunty wanted to make sure that you saw that wish!"

"Why?" Shizuka asked, backing away, feeling uncomfortable around her cousins.

"Shizuka! Don't you see? It's time for your test!" Anzu exclaimed as she hugged Shizuka with a joyful smile on.

"Uh-huh, all eight-year-old faeries have to go through it!" Mai exclaimed, like Anzu.

"What test?" Shizuka asked, actually feeling suspicious toward her cousins for the first time in her life.

"It's a test in which you prove to your guardian that you can grant wishes!" Mai said happily.

"And today, Shizuka, you're going to Domino," Anzu said as she hugged her younger cousin harder.

"Are you sure?" Shizuka asked, eyeing her cousins with extreme doubt.

"Would we lie to you?" Mai asked as forced tears started glossing her eyes. "Aunty Kijin obviously sent that wish to use as your....test!"

"And I think the first part of your test is gonna be how to leave this dome," Anzu explained. "But we can help you with that."

"Aunty never lets us leave her dome without permission," Shizuka reminded.

"Must we remind you that this is a test? You're supposed to leave the dome!"

Mai cleared her throat, secretly telling Anzu to let go of Shizuka and talk to her.

"Now, all we need is to combine our forces and use a powerful incantation to get you out of this dome, Shizuka," Mai explained as Anzu joined her side. "So, you stand perfectly still while Anzu and I point our wands to you and send you to Domino to grant that boy his wish for a friend."

"Ummm....I really don't think that Aunty would want me to leave the dome. I mean, shouldn't we ask her about this first?"

Mai looked impatiently at Shizuka, Anzu mimicked.

"We told you that this was a test. Now stand still. Mai? Can you come up with an incantation?" Anzu asked. "And it has to be a pretty one if we want to send a fairy child to Earth," she explained.

Shizuka started backing up a bit for she seriously did not like this "test" that they were talking about. With a quick glance at the window, she noticed Kijin trying different spells to make all the little gravel that was the statue to come back together into one piece. But all efforts, obviously, were futile.

"Really, guys..." Shizuka said as she felt the parlor wall behind her.

"Honestly Shizuka! Stand still!" Mai ordered with her wand pointing strictly at Shizuka's feet. Immediately, light purple shackles started growing out of the ground beneath Shizuka, and growing so fast, Shizuka had not time to fly away before they had enclosed her feet.

"Mai! What are you doing?!"

"Are you scared, Shizuka?" Anzu asked. "There's no reason to be. All you need to do is grant the wish, and then you'll automatically be transported back here. We're only gonna send you t-"

"I've got an incantation!" Mai exclaimed as she looked from Anzu to Shizuka. "But I think we'll both need to quickly point our wands to Shizuka like so, and I have to say it loudly and clearly if we want to get her out of this dome. And don't forget to repeat the incantation after me with a lot of force. It's gonna take a lot of magic to transport Shizuka out of Aunty Kijin's dome."

"If I've done anything wrong, I'm sorry but please don't do this!!!"

"Ok, then say the incantation already," Anzu ordered when she had her wand sharply pointing to the frightened Shizuka.

"Please don't," Shizuka begged as tears began to heavily blur her vision. It was at this moment that she desperately prayed that she could do some other magic rather than make a puppy appear.

"Alright," Mai whispered, "And don't worry Shizuka, this won't hurt a bit:

"Glistening like a river stone at a rainbow's end, send little Shizuka to that Japanese orphan in Domino that wishes for a friend!"

"No, no, please don't!"

"Glistening like a river stone at a rainbow's end, send little Shizuka to that Japanese orphan in Domino that wishes for a friend!"

And as Mai and Anzu enunciated every syllable of their spell, Anzu's and Mai's wands started glowing vividly. Shizuka felt a bit light-headed as a disgusting colored cloud of purple and red starting forming at her feet. It started to crawl up her body. Her legs were now being eaten by this cloud. Slowly, her waist was being consumed. The cloud was now slithering up to her torso, and she could hear the echoing laughter of her cousins. She couldn't see them well for dust from this savage cloud had started to blow into her eyes, and as she felt the cloud consume her head, the last thing she remembered screaming was

"AUNTY KIJIN!!!"

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"I hate this place. It smells bad, its food tastes bad, the people are bad......" The little Seto sighed as he thought of his unlucky misfortune to end up at this mental asylum. He was sitting on a small cement bench in a secluded corner of the orphanage's playground. He liked this place for nobody could see him complain to himself, and the tall bushes around the bench made it impossible for the counselors at the orphanage to "observe" Seto. (They thought that he might be bottling up secret feelings on account of how unlucky he had been to lose both parents and end up at an orphanage.)

Seto never really understood this. All the other kids were orphans, but the counselors always pinpointed him, and in their own way, they were the ones that isolated him from all the other children. They always assumed that they knew exactly what he was feeling, but Seto thought that upon this topic, the counselors combined knew as much as a brainless sloth.

Seto did have a hunch as to why the imbecilic counselors thought of him differently than they did of the other children. This thought depressed his mind often, but he had to admit it: He had no friends.

Sure, he had Mokuba, but that was his brother. He would always stick with Mokuba no matter what, but he didn't have a boy his own age to play adventurous games with. He didn't have anybody to play tag with or to play a challenging game of chess with. Then again, he had to admit that he was pretty damn good at chess.

The boys at the orphanage he didn't like. They used Mokuba as a dodge ball whenever they played, and they made up a game in which Mokuba was supposed to be a human version of a punching bag. Because of this, Seto loathed the boys and defended Mokuba with all the righteousness he had in his heart. And because Seto defended Mokuba, the boys returned Seto's loathing with an equally strong force.

"I need a friend," he mumbled to himself so low it was as if he was trying to deny this fact to himself. "I really do-"

As he was kicking some dirt under the bench with his shoe, his sulking face looked up to see a disgusting blend of purple and red form before his very eyes. This...cloud as he recalled it, was starting to grow before his very eyes. And frankly, he didn't like this cloud.

Thinking quickly, he immediately thought of jumping off of the bench and running toward the orphanage, but he had no time for whatever that cloud was, it was starting to take shape. He was glued in a state of shock to that bench as he watched with flabbergasted eyes as this blend of purple and tomato red started to swivel around its center faster. Whatever that cloud was bringing, it'd be here soon.

And soon came much sooner than Seto had expected. It didn't take the time of a single blink of an eye for the cloud to start revealing a shape--a rough human shape. And this human started to appear from the head down.

It was a girl! Seto had deduced that much by the features of her fact that had started to appear through the cloud's dust. It was fear that had kept him glued to the cement bench before, but now, it was astonishment that made him stay.

But like I said before, this was happening in split seconds. Seto was barely able to blink before he saw a full girl's silhouette appear right in front of him. And he watched with his mouth hung slightly open as he saw a little girl with waist-long auburn hair appear from the vanishing dust of the cloud.

He had never felt this way before, because for the first time in his life, he was startled. There was this girl--he had to admit, she was a rather pretty girl--practically thrown onto the very ground before him by a cloud of hideous purple and red coloring. He guessed that she was a couple of years younger than him. She was lying on the ground, and her large hazel eyes were opened, but they were frantically looking around. Her little tear-stained face was showing signs of obvious distress. She had a very peculiar dress on. It was like a tutu, but it had several sheer layers of Easter pink and a soft sage green. She was grasping something-a stick, in Seto's mind-in her right hand rather indignantly. And this stick, whatever it was, had a pink bottom with three, golden stars aligned as if shooting from the sky, resting on the very tip of the stick.

And as his eyes stared at her for a bit longer, he noticed these transparent flaps that very much resembled butterfly wings under her back. If he didn't know any better, he's say that those were wings....

He was above her, and she was lying directly paralleled to the cement bench. His feet were so close to her face, that he could actually see his shoelaces flutter as she breathed on them.

"WHO ARE YOU?" He asked as he gathered his feet onto the bench. Whomever or whatever she was, Seto did not trust this girl who had almost literally appeared out of thin air.

But before the question even had time to settle into Shizuka's mind, she jolted herself upwards, and she finally had a good look of where she was. And frankly, she didn't like it.

She felt grass beneath her legs, and smelled other types of foliage from all around her. To her right she saw a semicircle made up of nothing but massive bushes. And as she turned her head to look to the left of her, she had to bite her tongue to keep from screaming. This...boy was sitting on a bench a few inches above her head. He had these intimidating, icy blue eyes that sent a shiver down Shizuka's spine. But the way that this boy was looking at her.....It was like he considered her an alien, or that he truly despised her by the way he copied Anzu and Mai's pure hatred glares at each other.

Seeing this, Shizuka recklessly pushed herself backwards using her legs, and she managed to scoot herself away from this boy.

"WHO ARE YOU?" The boy asked again. He was obviously getting angered, and he had just realized that this little girl was afraid of him.

Not a good thing on Shizuka's part.

'Ok...ok....Anzu and Mai actually sent me here, so I guess I have to get myself away from here as quickly as possible. So to do that,' Shizuka thought, remembering Anzu's words, 'All I have to do is grant this kid his cruddy wish. Simple enough!' Shizuka felt sweat and a burning anxiousness arouse in her soft cheeks. She was really trying hard to diminish the true fear that she had within herself at the moment, but she had to stay focused...

"WHO ARE YOU?" Seto asked in astonishment as he stared at this girl again. Those flaps on her back that he compared to butterfly wings, he realized, wereattached to her back. And try as hard as he might to deny it to himself, he kept on thinking that those things were...wings.

Quickly, Shizuka lifted herself up, and stared with a false smile at the boy who was just about ready to attack her.

'He's speaking Japanese, and he wants to know who I am. Ok, then, just grant the wish, Shizuka. Grant the stupid wish and you'll be transported back home!' The interesting thing about Fairy Ears was that they could instantly translate any foreign language into Fairy Babble. So, it was quite easy for Shizuka to understand what the boy was saying.

"The quality of your wish lays in the way your determination proves itself." Those were words that Kijin had often repeated to Shizuka, and Shizuka knew that to grant a strong wish, all you needed to have was severe determination.

So, ignoring the angrily-asked questions of the boy, Shizuka remembered the last incantation that she had heard, and she decided to parodies it a little.

She held up the wand to the grass around the boy, and she could barely hold onto it with all the slipping it was doing because of her sweaty palms. But, she was outrageously determined to return herself back to the Fairy World, and she'd let nothing stand in her way. But as determined as she was, she made one grave mistake:

The tip of her wand, which was usually held up to the one you were casting the spell on, was pointed to herself.....

Shizuka heard the boy screaming things in the range of "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" and "KEEP THAT DEMENTED STICK AWAY FROM ME!!!"

"Shining like a moonstone and glistening with the light of a rainbow's end, give this orphaned boy a forever-lasting, HUMAN FRIEND!"

And the last things Shizuka remembered hearing were a few curses from the boy, and an incredible, ear-piercing BOOM!

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":Groan: Huh? What happened?" Shizuka found herself lying on the ground again, and she scowled as she felt a poking on her shoulder.

Her eyes didn't have to search too far until they came to a long branch jabbing into her upper left arm.

'Where'd he get that branch from? Must've got it when I passed out, but why did I pass out?' Shizuka asked herself as she saw Seto poke her with that annoying branch. Shizuka wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying about getting up and demanding an answer. Instead, she was more surprised to realize that she was still in the human world.

'Why am I still here? Did I grant the wish wrong? How long have I been out?! Wait--how can he be able to hurt me?!' As soon as Shizuka had asked herself this question, she once again jolted herself upwards.

You see, Humans couldn't touch Faeries. Whenever one human tried to even lay a finger on a fairy's skin, they'd feel nothing but cold air. A human touching a fairy was like a human grabbing wind. So...Then, why was Seto able to touch Shizuka?

Shizuka stood herself up again, and Seto withdrew his stick and mentioned something about him asking nicely one last time. But Shizuka had much more extreme matters to deal with right now...

"My wand?" She asked to no one in particular as she stared around herself, looking for the wand that she didn't feel in her hands.

"ANSWER ME!" Shizuka heard as she picked up her wand rather reluctantly off of the ground.

Shizuka was a bit confused because her wand didn't feel right. Instead of feeling smooth like the Silky Dogwood tree that it was carved out of, it felt cold and hard and nothing like what it was supposed to feel. And her wand's medallion, it felt cold and empty, not like the heavy gold that it was forged out of.

'Oh...no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO! Fudge! I have to get out of here right away!' She tried to send signals to fly, but all she got in return was a headache because her head was uselessly sending signals to do the impossible.

Shizuka couldn't fly, and this was strange because every fairy at infancy was taught to fly. So, naturally, she grabbed her back, and let out a small squeak at what she felt: Her wingless back.

She felt nothing where there were supposed to be wings, and it didn't take a genius to put it all together:

a) Seto, a human, was able to touch Shizuka, a fairy

b) Shizuka's wand felt different: It didn't feel the way it was supposed to feel

c) Shizuka couldn't fly because she had no wings

"Are you ever gonna answer me?" Seto asked as he put the branch up to Shizuka's face like he would hold up a kendo stick.

Shizuka felt her stomach turn and dropped her wand as she came to her realization. Feeling as if she was about to vomit, she clasped a hand above her mouth.

"OH MY GOSH!" She screamed with horror in her voice, "I'M A...I'M A...I'M A HUMAN!!!"

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Well..... Whaddya think? Good? Terrible? Delete ASAP?!

I'll look forward to any constructive criticism! Don't worry, Mai and Anzu will get their punishments!

----------------------------------------------Celestial Night